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French Insurance CodeIn force
Chapter V: Consolidated and combined financial statements

Article L345-3

Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the consolidated or combined accounts referred to in Article L. 345-2 are drawn up in accordance with the rules laid down by Articles L. 233-16, L. 233-17-1…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
I: Rates

Article 281 octies

Value added tax is levied at the rate of 2.10% on deliveries of magistral preparations, officinal medicines, medicines or pharmaceutical products defined in article L. 5121-8 of the Public Health Code…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 10: Marketing of structured deposits

Article L511-105

When they market structured deposits within the meaning of Article L. 312-22 or when they provide advice on these deposits, credit institutions are subject to the provisions of 2°, 3° and 6° of II of…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Single chapter: Treatment of over-indebtedness

Article L771-5

Sont applicables en Nouvelle-Calédonie et en Polynésie française, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l'article L. 771-6, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the tab…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Provisions common to consumer credit and home loans

Article D351-6

Sont applicables en Polynésie française et en Nouvelle-Calédonie, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l'article D. 351-7, the provisions of the articles mentioned in the left-hand column of the tab…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter II: Judicial police files

Article R40-32

The implementation and updating of the processing operation shall be supervised by a senior public prosecutor, appointed for three years by order of the Minister of Justice, and assisted by a committe…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
CHAPTER III: Global operating grant and other grants

Article R1613-1

Salary costs reimbursed pursuant to article L. 1613-5 include all remuneration defined by the décret n°85-730 du 17 juillet 1985 relatif à la rémunération des fonctionnaires de l'Etat et des fonctionn…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Subsection 2: Procedures for compiling statistics (R)

Article R1614-13

The standardised forms and information referred to in Article R. 1614-11 are set, after consulting the committee for the coordination of regional apprenticeship and continuing vocational training prog…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Issue.

Article D5125-45-1

Experimental or ancillary medicinal products authorised when used under the provisions of 1° or 2° of III of article L. 1121-16-1 may be dispensed by pharmacies, if they appear on the list referred to…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2: Determination of taxable profits

Article 39 AH

Automatically controlled reprogrammable multi-application manipulators, programmable in three or more axes, which are fixed or mobile and intended for use in industrial automation applications, acquir…

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